Demonstration once morest the immigration law, in Paris, January 25, 2024. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS Add to your selections Add to your selections
The constitutional judges, on Thursday, found ten measures out of the forty before them to be compliant. They thus validated the lifting of deportation protections from which certain categories of foreigners benefit, such as those who arrived in France before the age of 13. This provision is supposed to allow 4,000 additional expulsions of foreign delinquents, promises Place Beauvau. It is likened by its opponents to the reestablishment of a form of “double punishment”.
Likewise, the Council judged that the generalization of the single judge, to the detriment of collegial formations of three judges, to rule more quickly on asylum requests before the National Court of Asylum (CNDA) was consistent with the Constitution. The possibility of using video hearings to judge the continued detention of foreigners has also been approved.
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Provisions introduced by the senatorial right were also approved, and in particular those conditioning the issuance of visas on the good cooperation of the countries of origin in matters of readmission of their nationals in an irregular situation.
